Moses D. Hoge

Moses Drury Hoge (17 September 1818-6 January 1899) was an American Presbyterian minister who served as reverend of the Second Presbyterian Church of Richmond.

Biography
Moses Drury Hoge was born in Virginia on 17 September 1818, the grandson of the founders of Hampden-Sydney College. In 1843, immediately after graduating from the seminary, he established the Second Presbyterian Church of Richmond; he used his own personal money to fund the church during times of economic hardship, and he was known to be a selfless man. During the American Civil War, he was nicknamed the "Patrick Henry of the Confederacy" for his passionate support of the rebel cause, which he argued was not about slavery; he was instead proud of the American South and supported the new country. Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson, D.H. Hill, Thomas R.R. Cobb, and Maxcy Gregg, Secretary of War John C. Breckinridge, and Vice-President Alexander H. Stephens attended Hoge's church, and Hoge contributed to the rebel cause by running the Union blockade to retrieve Bibles from England. During the war, he lost his country, his money, his health, and his wife, and, after the war, he gained the reputation of a walking monument, praising Jackson at his monument. In 1888, he attended the World Presbyterian Alliance conference in London, where he preached in front of Queen Victoria. He died in 1899.